Peter Westbrook, who in 1984 became the first Black American fencer to win an Olympic medal, started a foundation that developed seven Olympians.

Peter Westbrook, a fencer who competed at five Olympics, winning a bronze medal, and started a New York City fencing academy that produced many Olympians, has died at age 72. Westbrook died due to complications after a long cancer battle, according to the Peter Westbrook Foundation, the nonprofit fencing organization that Westbrook founded in 1991.